The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth and the future of humanity
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Anthropocene Encounters, 2019, pp. 25-49
- Issue Date:
- 2019-01-01
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Global change scientists are making epochal claims about the Earth of wide relevance and great profundity. historically, green thinking has rested on a foundation of scientific claims about human impacts on nature. Without discounting the significance of these impacts, this chapter unsettles the foundational claims about global nature that animate Earth System science. It suggests that there is an irredeemably cultural component of all cognitive claims about the 'fact' of global environmental change. This component can be acknowledged without sliding into epistemic or ontological relativism. It can form the basis of a more robust politics of global environmental management if handled properly, such that a scientised politics and a politicised science do not become the default options.
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